State Senator Art Linares (R-33rd) presented official State of Connecticut citations to outstanding high school art students from the shoreline region during the Shoreline Arts Alliance’s Future Choices awards reception held March 10 at Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts’ Sill House Gallery.
Pictured at Sunday’s Shoreline Arts Alliance Future Choices awards ceremony at Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts are (from left to right) State Senator Art Linares, Future Choices Co-Chair Kathleen Bidney-Singewald, Future Choices Co-Chair Ruth Baxter, student award winner Dai Yongzheng of Westbrook-based Oxford Academy, and Shoreline Arts Alliance Executive Director/CEO Eric Dillner.
The art exhibition offers students the experience of being juried by experts in the arts and exhibiting in a professional gallery setting.
Students who reside or attend school in the shoreline region were eligible to submit works for the competition. Students who submitted work came from towns, which included Lyme and Old Lyme along with Branford, Chester, Clinton, Deep River, Durham, East Haddam, East Haven, East Lyme, Essex, Guilford, Haddam, Killingworth, Madison, Middlefield, North Branford, Old Saybrook, Salem and Westbrook.
From left to right, Shoreline Arts Alliance Executive Director/CEO Eric Dillner, State Senator Art Linares and Lyme Academy of Fine Arts President Scott Colley chat prior to the awards ceremony.
“These young artists have tremendous talents, and it was my pleasure to help honor them,” Linares said. “The support and encouragement these students have received from our communities has allowed them to thrive.”
Linares represents the 33rd District that includes the towns of Chester, Clinton, Colchester, Deep River, East Haddam, East Hampton, Essex, Haddam, Lyme, Old Saybrook, Portland, and Westbrook. To contact him, email Art.Linares@cga.ct.gov, call (800) 842 1421 or visit www.senatorlinares.com